Tourist-to-tourist interactions: a future perspective

Tourist interactions have maintained an increasing significance in the tourism literature. However, the existing research that accentuates dyadic-based inquires has become less relevant to the dynamism of the tourism service encounter where tourist-to-tourist interactions take place; and therefore, more forward-thinking dynamic-based perspectives that fully uncover this phenomenon shall prevail. This research note therefore reviews and summarises the existing tourism literature on tourist interactions. Moreover, three future priorities are proposed to unfold the dynamism of tourist interactions. Accordingly, future research is suggested to adopt interdependent, coevolutionary, and/or integrated perspectives to extend the current tourism literature.